Fritz Sauckel

Fritz Sauckel (27 October 1894-16 October 1946) was General Plenipotentiary for Labor Deployment of Nazi Germany from 21 March 1942 to 8 May 1945.

Biography
Fritz Sauckel was born on 27 October 1894 in Hassfurt, Bavaria, German Empire, and he served in the merchant marine during the 1910s. He was captured by France during World War I, and he joined the Nazi Party while he was employed as a factory worker in Schweinfurt in 1923. In 1927, he became the gauleiter of Thuringia, and he joined the SA and SS in 1934 as an Obergruppenfuehrer. In 1942, Martin Bormann had him named the first "General Plenipotentiary for Labor Deployment" of Nazi Germany during World War II, and he imported 4,800,000 workers from the Soviet Union and Poland to work in German factories during the war. He also forced Polish workers to wear a letter "P" patch to distinguish them from the German population, and he worked many to death. In 1946, during the Nuremberg Trials, he was sentenced to death for his role in using slave labor for the sake of Germany, and he was hanged 11 days before his 52nd birthday.